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Today’s market-induced suicidal tendencies story brought to you courtesy of India:

The sudden stock market crash has triggered severe depression among a number of investors and some have even developed suicidal tendencies, according to a noted psyschiatrist in Ahmedabad.

"The downswing in the Sensex has heightened anxiety level among several investors and many of them are coming to me in acute panic state as they want to end their lives," Dr Hansel Bachech noted psychiatrist and Member Mental Health Authority, Gujarat.

Usually the symptoms that they exhibit are dryness of the mouth, severe palpitation, breathlessness, uneasy feeling in the stomach, insomnia and acute fear.

That's strange. I get all those symptoms from listening to Garrison Keillor.

Posted by edelfenbein at June 19, 2006 3:45 PM